We have been preparing the new strawberry beds at Kindling Farm. Mowing, power harrowing and ploughing and then covering. Because in a few weeks time we receive 4,000 strawberry plants. 🙂 We are SO excited! #organic #farming #horticulture

We have had a very successful recruitment drive & now have 3 amazing people joining the farm. We've a hugely experienced Farm Manager, Community Engagement Worker and a Systems Coordinator. All were stand out candidates & live locally, bringing added local knowledge & relationships to the Farm. 🙂

Are you free this Saturday, Sunday or Monday? Fancy a day outside, great company and good food? We still have places on our upcoming Kindling Farm volunteer days with a range of tasks to suit everyone. To find out more and sign up visit: kindling.org.uk/EventBooking

“It make you feel part of the solution for a more sustainable life, teaming w/ wonderful like minded people. You leave feeling that your hard work during the day was totally worthwhile” Join us on 8th, 9th or 10th March as we continue to prepare for the growing season: kindling.org.uk/EventBooking

We are looking for architects to work with us to design the transformation of our beautiful Victorian farm into a thriving hub and facilities for our communities. For more information please visit: kindling.org.uk/news/kindlin... Deadline for tenders: 14th March at 5pm.

Spent a great day volunteering at Kindling Farm @kindlingtrust.bsky.social yesterday as they prepared for their first growing season. I'm more of an organiser than a 'doer', but even I got out into the fields and helped wrangle the crop mesh 😁 Volunteering opps: kindling.org.uk/Calendar?fie...

We have lots of exciting opportunities to join the Kindling team this year, both at Kindling Farm and Kindling Market Garden! For more details visit: 🚜kindling.org.uk/news #CommunityEngagement #agroforestry #marketgardening #Communitywork

Deadlines soon for 2 exciting jobs we've at Kindling Farm. We are looking for someone to help us deliver our Community Engagement programme & an Admin Assistant. Deadline for the P/T Admin Assistant is this Thursday 16th Jan, applications for our F/T Community Engagement Worker is Monday 20th Jan.

Just back from the revitalising Oxford Real Farming Conf (#ORFC25). We ran a workshop on lessons we've learnt in our 1st yr on Kindling Farm. We've come back a little less daunted w/ our workload & the farming decisions we need to make. So big thank you to ORFC! Photo credit: Hugh Warwick & ORFC

Govt's latest proposals for farmers will profit agribusinesses but offer little so far to family farms or nature. Sustain reacts to announcement at #ORFC to boost food production and farmer profits. 🔽

Thank you to everyone who came to our lunchtime farm deep dive on Kindling Farm's 1st year. Apologies to those of you who couldn't get in. #orfc25

This is just one of the amazingly informative sessions we will be going to at #ORFC25. As our 1st growing season on Kindling Farm fast approaches we are here to learn as much as possible from hugely knowledgeable growers, farmers and ecologists.

Really looking forward to #ORFC25. We are speaking at 1pm in the Council Chamber today. Just a quick Deep Dive sharing lessons from our 1st year on Kindling Farm.

It's not the start of the Oxford Real Farming Conference until @kindlingtrust.bsky.social buy you a pint

Here is a quick reminder of our 2025 volunteer days. We have days focused on everything from tree planting and making nest boxes, to putting up polytunnels and servicing the tractors. Find out more and to sign up at: kindling.org.uk/EventBooking #volunteering #volunteer

2025 goals? More exercise, meet new people, get outside more? Why not join us on 25th or 26th January? We'll be tree planting & maintaining our hedgerows. Gr8 sense of achievement, great company & lovely food guaranteed 🙂 To find out more: kindling.org.uk/EventBooking #newyearsresolution #volunteer

Over £9K of the current £10K now reached, but more support will help 2025 get off to a good start - and there's lots to do!

Today we are sending out all the certificates and thank you cards to those of you who have supported our Crowdfunder as a seasonal gift to a loved one. We have been humbled by the level of support and really moved by your messages. So a heart felt thank you from Kindling Farm.

We're really looking forward to this tomorrow! Make sure you sign up to this webinar from the @foodfoundation.bsky.social for a 30 min snap analysis of the year in food policy, featuring our lovely CEO Kath Dalmeny!

We've had a fantastic response this past yr from our supporters contributing 445.5 #volunteer days in 2024. Equal to 2 f/t staff members & smashes 2023's tally of 199 volunteer days. To help out & get rewarded w/ lunch, sense of achievement & great company visit: kindling.org.uk/EventBooking

Kindling Farm are Recruiting! 🙂 We looking for a P/t Admin Assistant to join us at Kindling Farm in the New Year. Visit: kindling.org.uk/news to find out more and download our job description. Deadline for applications: 16th January 5pm. #jobopportunity #MerseysideJobs #charityjobs

We have just announced the dates for our first few 2025 volunteer days on Kindling Farm. We have days focused on everything from tree planting and making nest boxes, to putting up polytunnels and servicing the tractors. Find out more and to sign up at: kindling.org.uk/EventBooking #volunteer

Helen had a rare night off the Farm last night thanks to the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation & the UK Social Enterprise Awards. "It was so energising to see so many amazing social enterprises working hard to create a better world" Thank you @EsmeeFairbairn & @SocialEnt_UK #SocEntAwards24 #SocEnt

It all looks like a bit of a muddy mess at the moment, But come the summer these ponds and scrapes at Kindling Farm will be buzzing with dragonflies and swallows. #Biodiversity #ponds #wildlifefriendly #farming

Work at Kindling Farm to create wet meadow scrapes for waders and open up our stream for water voles is going well. It looks pretty brutal at this stage, but once its all been landscaped, reseeded and the hazel hedge takes hold this Spring it will be all worth it.

Kindling Farm has 7 large ponds across the farm & tomorrow contractors start work reprofiling the pond edges, scrub clearance, scrape creation to encourage more wildlife. All part of the Farmland Species Recovery Project w/ Merseyside Env' Advisory Service. #biodiversity #farm #wildlife

Today Helen is modelling 5 layers of clothes and an electric blanket in the Kindling Farm office. The house is pretty cold and damp, despite all the work we did on it over the summer, but it takes a lot to dampens Helen's mood.

With our first growing season around the corner we are really grateful for these hard frosts. A wet mild winter would give us a really bad start to the season, with pests and weeds having a head start on us.

Kindling Farm had a landmark meeting w/ Unicorn Grocery yesterday exploring crops we'll be growing for them. Unicorn has been supportin us for years & to be sitting w/ the veg buying team over a spreadsheet of crops, varieties & sale volumes was a pretty incredible feeling & a long awaited moment.

My mum says she doesn’t want anything for Christmas, but I bet she’ll be happy that I’ve sponsored her an apple tree through these lovely people.

Usually reporting back on Kindling Farm's volunteer weekends focuses on the number of trees we've planted or how much painting we've done, but the wkends are as much about community building, new friendships & fascinating conversations. Here are two dozen of us having a good chat over today's lunch.

We're Crowdfunding! We've got ambitious plans for Kindling Farm in 2025 and beyond, but current financial hurdles to start out in farming means we are asking for your support. Any help is hugely welcomed, learn more here: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kindlingfarm #crowdfunding #crowdfunder

First frost of the year & Kindling Farm is looking gorgeous. Up at first light with the buzzards, hares and geese marking out for a big wood chip delivery for the apple trees. #organic #agroforestry #farming

This weekend we have dug up 360 apple trees for the farm. Varieties for Field #4 are Bramley & Annie Elizabeth, (both cooking apples); Winston (for its ability to be stored for a long time and resistant to most diseases); Rajka & Red Topaz (two modern varieties popular with customers).

Big thank you to everyone who has helped us this Saturday and Sunday (and joining us on Monday) at our fruit tree nursery. We are digging up 400 fruit trees from there & bringing them to Kindling Farm to be planted into our #agroforestry system.

Today we've been meeting w/ the Uni of Manchester’s Soil Dept & Mersey BioBank to start our AFNnetwork funded research project to monitor carbon capture & nature recovery. Uom will be doing lots of cutting edge #science & Mersey BioBank lots of #citizenscience. #biodiversity #carbon #climatechange

In a few weeks time we restart our legendary apple tree planting. If you are up for a demanding & rewarding day helping us plant 400 apple trees in Nov & Dec check out our website: kindling.org.uk/EventBooking #appletrees #orchards #agroforestry #treeplanting #climatechange #biodiversity

We have more fantastic news: Kindling Farm has just been awarded £120,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to explore ways to bring our traditional Victorian farm back to life, while providing a wealth of heritage skills opportunities.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming community groups, food growers and the public sector to Kindling Farm as part of a #Liverpool / #Liverpoolcityregion Food & Farming Conversation Conference organised by Feeding Liverpool & Liverpool Food Growers Network.

Had a great day volunteering at @kindlingtrust.bsky.social Farm, a fantastic organic agroforestry venture in Tarbock Green, followed by a walk to Ditton Brook (grey partridge family, swallows & house martins the highlights), then onto CLP for the wood & green sandpipers again. Now 😴 😴 😴 #UKbirding

Kindling Farm is looking stunning at the moment. We will definitely be planting many more oak trees this winter 🙂

Every other wkend we host volunteer days for our members at Kindling Farm. The last one had a sorting & demolishing focus. This weekend is going to be much calmer, with a focus on biodiversity. Everything from counting worms in the fields, to water tests to building owl boxes.

We've been at Kindling Farm for over 8 months and only now finding time to sort out our new office.

Absolutely miserable weather over the weekend, but despite that our volunteers did an amazing job at Kindling Farm. Thank you!

Another busy volunteer weekend here at Kindling Farm. If you are a member you should have received your latest bulletin with all the opportunities to help out this Autumn.

A very wet, but productive day with our #Agroforestry Gang today. Checking on our apple trees, looking at our Kindling Farm Plan's and coming up with a plan to move and plant a thousand fruit trees this winter. All exciting stuff!

Another momentous day at Kindling Farm. Huge delivery this morning of our new second-hand polytunnels. Its amazing what you can find on ebay! #organic #farming #organicseptember #horticulture

Huge thank you to everyone who could make it to our first on-farm Kindling Farm AGM. Nearly 80 Members joined us in person and online. Its our mission to become a good farm and a great cooperative. #organicseptember #cooperative #farming

You're never sure when you climb the ladder to check on our owl boxes. Check out these super cute barn owl chicks! The box hasn't been up long and was inspected a bit ago by a licenced raptor expert. If you support our work, buy our veg, volunteer with us, you can take some credit for these guys. 🙂

Our preparation and planning to transform Kindling Farm into a pioneering #agroforestry farm are gearing up as we move into the Autumn.